remunerative.

Providing payment, earnings or financial return that makes an activity financially rewarding.

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Words that belong together

• remunerative work
• remunerative investment

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The work was remunerative but offered little freedom over the schedule.

The investment remained remunerative only while the operating costs stayed within the forecast.

Usage notes

Primary category: economics / business / social science. Forms: Comparative more remunerative; superlative most remunerative where gradation is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: economic explanation, resource analysis, incentive analysis, comparison. Disciplines: economics, business, social science. Commonness: uncommon.